Fans of Twitter know that NASA has indeed embraced the micro blogging service in an attempt to bring the mystery of space down to Earth. Nothing does that better than the release of NASA photos to the public and Twitter has been found to be a great medium to do just that. Aol News reports that a number of astronauts have embraced Twitter to show off their own photos, though there have been some difficulties in doing so from space during the early days of tweeting.

It turns out that when astronauts first began using Twitter from space it wasn’t in real-time. The first astronaut to tweet from space, Mike Massimino (@Astro_Mike), had to send his tweet to the Johnson Space Center back on Earth who would then post his tweet to his account. Luckily, the next round of astronauts to take command of the International Space Station (ISS) won’t have to deal with that headache. Thanks to an upgrade astronauts can now tweet in real-time.

Hopefully, we can expect to see even more fantastic photos when astronaut Douglas H. Wheelock (@Astro_Wheels) takes command of the latest joint U.S. and Russian expedition to the ISS.